Following the test of the women's team were the two tests of the men's team. There were no surprises in the tests of these two groups. The performances of the players that Su Bai had chosen in advance, such as Jing Feibai and Hou Mingye, were outstanding. It's not that other players didn't perform outstandingly in the final test match. It's just that when selecting players, the winner cannot be determined solely by the results of the final test match. After all, the final conclusion can only be drawn by a comprehensive consideration of the players' previous performances and physical fitness.
When the three rounds of in-team test matches were over, the members of the trial team were temporarily disbanded. Su Bai directly brought the coaches to the third meeting room and asked them to write down their final candidates and reasons on the spot.
The coaches of these track and field teams have also invested a lot of effort in the members of the tryout teams during this period of time. For Su Bai, the coaches' perceptions of these players are the last guarantee for selecting the tryout members, in addition to the cold data analysis. Su Bai hopes to rely on this final round of manual screening to confirm whether there are any obvious mistakes in the selection of candidates.
Zheng Xingguo and Wang Ting, who cooperated with the selection and training of athletes for the trial team, as well as coaches in charge of specific items such as physical fitness and strength, and various assistant coaches also wrote down their ideal lists in their record books one by one and then showed them at the same time.
Each coach will of course have his own training content preferences when choosing players. For example, the coach in charge of strength training will be more impressed by players who perform well in strength training. Similarly, players who perform well in physical training will naturally be favored by physical coaches.
But generally speaking, these players did not escape Su Bai's expected list of starters. The only thing that surprised Su Bai was that in addition to the players on the roster, there was another player named Li Feng on the men's team, who also appeared on almost all coaches' lists with a high appearance rate. The only one who did not write Li Feng was the assistant coach of the women's team. His attention was all on the players who needed to be screened for the women's team, so he didn't pay much attention to Li Feng.
Su Bai recalled that, just like the ordinary name Li Feng, Li Feng's age, basic physical quality, results, training progress, degree of improvement, etc., almost all items, did not seem to have any outstanding points, including Su Bai's recollection of his state when he ran the 400-meter full distance...
It was a very standard 400-meter sprint rhythm. Even though the running process was a little difficult and his physical fitness affected his speed in the second half, he still rushed forward at the standard rhythm.
Li Feng's final result was considered average. Under all the ordinary things, he was so ordinary that Su Bai almost ignored his existence.
Su Bai suddenly remembered that before the World Championships, when he had just included these trial team players as associated users, one player's willpower data was as high as 9 points, which surprised him. However, compared with the amazing willpower data, Li Feng's other data seemed too ordinary.
"This Li Feng... is very hardworking. It's not that other contestants don't work hard, but this Li Feng works much harder than other contestants. He completes every training item in the most standard and uncompromising way."
"His grades are relatively average, but his ruthlessness is unmatched by anyone else on the trial team."
"This Li Feng... is too self-disciplined. Apart from the nutritious meals arranged for him by the team, he doesn't touch any other food. As for his daily routine and training, as long as you give him a specified standard, he will complete it without any compromise. I was curious whether he was only like this during the national team trial or always like this. As a result, I asked his friends in the track and field team and found out that he is really the same every day, 365 days a year."
Laziness is a bit like an innate bad habit of human beings. It is too difficult to completely overcome it. However, it seems that Li Feng does not have this thing called 'laziness'.
Of course, this is impossible. The only explanation is that Li Feng is restrained and self-disciplined enough.
Sure enough, everyone's feedback on Li Feng focused more on his "outstanding willpower".
Willpower…
Su Bai frowned, went over all of Li Feng's data in his mind, and finally added Li Feng's name to the main list.
When the coaches in the conference room saw Lu Xiaolu from the women's team, they were only slightly surprised, but after seeing the roster of the men's team, everyone became a little hesitant.
"Coach Su, isn't the number of players selected for the men's team a bit too high?"
Hou Mingye, Zhang Jiale, Jing Feibai, Wu Tian, Zhuo Yutang and Qiu Mingjie, there are 6 people alone, and if Li Feng is added, there will be 7 people in total.
There were only 10 players from the men's team participating in this round of screening, and in the end 7 of them were included in the main selection list. This made some coaches feel that this round of screening was too loose?
Su Bai didn't care about this: "The threshold for the national team is not easy to pass, but I think we should always be welcoming to these talented players. There is no need to give up on talented players just because the number of players exceeds expectations."
"Besides, actually, entering the national team is just a starting point for these players. If they want to achieve results, they still have to rely on their own strength and hard work."
"Joining the national team only means that their strength and hard work have a better chance for us to see them. As coaches, don't we also hope to see a sufficient reserve of talents?"
Su Bai's righteous words made all the 400-meter coaches present shrink back. They looked at each other and felt that there was nothing wrong with what Su Bai said. When they really thought about it, the reason why there were so few athletes training in the national team for the 400-meter sprint in the past was purely because there was a lack of talents that they could catch their eye.
Two years ago, Zhang Ziyi, who had the best 400m performance in China, had a PB of less than 45.50 seconds, and other athletes were thankful if they could break 46 seconds once. It was not like now, when the national record is 44.81 seconds.
Although Zhang Ziyi's achievement has not yet broken the record of the yellow race, everyone is now full of confidence - it is probably only a matter of time before Zhang Ziyi breaks this record!
Even if he did not break the record, it is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang Ziyi is the strongest active player in Asia.
Besides Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen and Li Junhao's strengths are also rising steadily, and the players in the trial team are full of talents...
The coaches looked at each other and then laughed - right? Among those on the main selection list, none of them got in through connections or backdoors; they all got in based on their real abilities. Even Lu Xiaolu, who seems a little too delicate in character, has incredible talent.
Not to mention the men's team. Even the three players who didn't make the roster have their own strengths. If it were in the past, they would definitely be the outstanding players they would have cried for!
Thinking about it this way, they felt that Su Bai had screened too many people, and it would be better if he could even keep the eliminated contestants!
Of course, apart from Li Feng, Su Bai did not agree to keep more players. As for Li Feng, Su Bai wanted to make an attempt to see whether a player with top talent in "willpower" could rely on willpower and this terrible self-discipline to finally achieve a breakthrough in talent and ability - just like Chen Yada and Zhang Ziyi's potential breakthrough.
The meeting between the coaches ended after Su Bai finalized the roster, but after the test, the players who were given the order to disband and rest were done, but no one was in the mood to completely relax and rest.
After all, it is about whether they can enter the national team. At this moment, all the trial players are like college entrance examination candidates who are about to receive their results, waiting for the verdict on their future.
Finally, after some of them noticed that the coaches had returned from the direction of the conference room, the contestants, who had been a little noisy, suddenly became quiet. Even Wu Tian and Qiu Mingjie, who had been whispering just now, now stared at Su Bai's figure, waiting for Su Bai's verdict with some anxiety in their hearts.
After returning to the training ground, Su Bai looked at the nervous looks of the trial players in front of him. He did not say anything extra to comfort or cover up, but directly said: "Seeing how nervous everyone is, you should all know what I will announce when I come back. In this case, without further ado, I will directly announce the final list of players selected for the national team."
After hearing Su Bai's words, everyone became even more nervous, even though they already knew the verdict was about to come.
"The final qualifiers for the women's team: Yang Yi, Ding Meng, Zhao Yuhan... Lu Xiaolu, the above 4." Before Su Bai mentioned Lu Xiaolu, he took a special glance at her. Sure enough, this child was visibly nervous and about to cry before she heard her own name. The expression on her face did not seem to be aggrieved, but she just looked purely... very easy to cry.
Su Bai's eyes swept across without lingering on Lu Xiaolu, and then turned his gaze to the men's team.
When the 7 male team members were counted and Su Bai finally announced the list, the 4 contestants and 3 male contestants who were not selected showed obvious disappointment on their faces.
Su Bai did not make any special efforts to comfort these unsuccessful contestants - for athletes, being eliminated and failing is really a very common thing. To put it cruelly, this elimination will definitely not be their last elimination and failure, and they will have to face more in their future careers.
After finalizing the roster, the national team also directly published all the roster and related information such as their individual 400m performance improvements during the trial training, best test data, average test data, etc. on the Internet.
In the era of information disclosure, this has become the standard procedure for athletes to be selected for the national team. This is also done to prevent someone from abusing their power to randomly stuff people into the national team, thus maintaining the purity of talent selection in competitive sports to the greatest extent.
On the Internet, track and field fans and ordinary bystanders are also very satisfied with the latest information they have seen. Many people even made bets on these data and names - who will be the fastest rising star in the 400-meter event?
It can be said that the thriving 400-meter event has given everyone great expectations.
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